Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Carrier Shende And Associates Pc

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

62 pending office actions • 20 clients • 62 examiners • 45 art units • 0 of 62 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

This profile has 57 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Its broader record covers 4768 career applications, with a resolved allowance rate of 89.99% and an average of 2.67 office actions per allowance.

The pending workload reflects active prosecution in a chemistry and materials practice. The broader outcome and examination figures help frame response planning, expected prosecution effort, and the handling of allowed matters.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=4768 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.0%
Allowance Rate
n=4768
+0.63σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=4768
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=3876
-0.37σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=3876
937 days
Time to Allowance
n=3876
+0.4pp
Interview Lift
n=4768
17.1%
RCE Rate
n=4768
1.1%
Appeal Rate
n=4768

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

70.9%
§101 Overcome
n=203
85.4%
§102 Overcome
n=1430
84.1%
§103 Overcome
n=2273
86.0%
§112 Overcome
n=1445

Specialization & Scale

H01M, Y02E, Y10T
Top CPC Subclasses
10%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=4768
0
Practitioners
n=4768
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=4768 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

62
Total Pending OAs
39
Non-Final OAs
22
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

21
Hard (34%)
40
Medium (65%)
1
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (3%)
§101 + other7 (11%)
§103 only30 (48%)
§102 only6 (10%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Double-patenting + other4 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)12 (19%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

35
Life Sciences
56% of docket
2
Information Tech
3% of docket
5
Communications
8% of docket
4
Semiconductors
6% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
23% of docket
2
Business / Other
3% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

620 h
Manual time on pending OAs
124 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
217 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ABDULLAH, AAISHA 1 23.5% +39.2%
HERRING, LISA L 1 72.9% +17.2%
GAMINO, CARLOS J 1 35.3% +45.7%
HUBER, MELANIE GRACE 1 75.3% +15.8%
MELTON, TODD M 1 84.2% +17.9%
AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A 1 80.5% +18.2%
YANG, YI 1 72.3% +17.7%
CLARE, MARK C 1 14.1% +19.9%
GITMAN, GABRIEL E 1 76.2% +20.3%
NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE 1 80.0% +23.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19065902 MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A —
19033703 SOUND CONTROLLER AND SOUND GENERATION METHOD NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE —

Hard Cases (21)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18372113 MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 7d
19140182 MEDICAL CARE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM ABDULLAH, AAISHA —
19120850 GLASS COMPOSITION FOR FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS, FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS FROM GLASS MATERIAL CONTAINING GLASS RECYCLING MATERIAL HERRING, LISA L —
19120063 ULTRASONIC COMPOSITE VIBRATION DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC BONDING DEVICE GAMINO, CARLOS J —
19066588 WORKING SYSTEM HUBER, MELANIE GRACE —
19066554 WORKING SYSTEM MELTON, TODD M —
19104409 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD CLARE, MARK C —
19033684 ACTIVE SOUND EFFECT GENERATING DEVICE AND ACTIVE SOUND EFFECT GENERATING METHOD UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL —

Interview Candidates (10)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19140182 MEDICAL CARE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM ABDULLAH, AAISHA —
19120850 GLASS COMPOSITION FOR FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS, FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS FROM GLASS MATERIAL CONTAINING GLASS RECYCLING MATERIAL HERRING, LISA L —
19120063 ULTRASONIC COMPOSITE VIBRATION DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC BONDING DEVICE GAMINO, CARLOS J —
19066588 WORKING SYSTEM HUBER, MELANIE GRACE —
19066554 WORKING SYSTEM MELTON, TODD M —
19065902 MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A —
19065778 MAP GENERATION DEVICE, MAP GENERATION SYSTEM, MAP GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM YANG, YI —
19104409 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD CLARE, MARK C —

Client Portfolio (20 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17414
17314
17254
36682
36692
17722
36162
17672
17942
36811

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19140182 MEDICAL CARE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM Physiologas Technologies, Inc. ABDULLAH, AAISHA 3681 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2025
19120850 GLASS COMPOSITION FOR FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS, FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLAT CROSS-SECTION GLASS FIBERS FROM GLASS MATERIAL CONTAINING GLASS RECYCLING MATERIAL Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. HERRING, LISA L 1741 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 14, 2025
19120063 ULTRASONIC COMPOSITE VIBRATION DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC BONDING DEVICE Link-Us Co., Ltd. GAMINO, CARLOS J 1735 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 10, 2025
19066588 WORKING SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. HUBER, MELANIE GRACE 3668 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2025
19066554 WORKING SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MELTON, TODD M 3669 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2025
19065902 MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, MUSICAL PIECE INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A 2649 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19065778 MAP GENERATION DEVICE, MAP GENERATION SYSTEM, MAP GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. YANG, YI 2616 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19104409 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CLARE, MARK C 3628 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 18, 2025
19099136 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SORPTION/DESORPTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE Eriko Tohyama GITMAN, GABRIEL E 1772 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 28, 2025
19033703 SOUND CONTROLLER AND SOUND GENERATION METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE 2692 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2025
19033684 ACTIVE SOUND EFFECT GENERATING DEVICE AND ACTIVE SOUND EFFECT GENERATING METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL 3662 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 22, 2025
18994784 TRANSMISSION DEVICE Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. LEWIS, TISHA D 3619 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2025
19016333 PLATE SPRING Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LANE, NICHOLAS J 3616 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2025
19013605 AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS AND METHODS OF USING SAME FOR REMEDIATING CONTAMINANTS IN CONTAMINATED GASSES Gaps Technology,Llc FADHEL, ALI Z 1772 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 08, 2025
18872522 ELECTROMAGNETIC FUEL INJECTION VALVE Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 3752 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18867853 CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE METHOD Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. KIM, ANDREW SANG 3668 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 21, 2024
18863202 RESIN PIPE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DEVICE The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. LIANG, SHIBIN 1741 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 05, 2024
18921727 INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ROBERSON, JASON R 3669 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 21, 2024
18808490 VACUUM HEAT INSULATING PANEL Ideal Brain Co., Ltd. SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 19, 2024
18839156 EXPERIENCE SPACE SWITCHING METHOD, EXPERIENCE SPACE SWITCHING SYSTEM, EXPERIENCE SPACE SWITCHING APPARATUS, AND EXPERIENCE SPACE SWITCHING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH THE SAME RECORDED THEREIN Abal Inc. COBB, MICHAEL J 2615 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18730150 COMPOSITE STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS INCLUDING COMPOSITE STRUCTURE Toto Ltd. BOLDEN, ELIZABETH A 1731 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 18, 2024
18760351 FUEL CELL SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. YUEN, JACKY §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 01, 2024
18723572 METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM LITHIUM-SALT-CONTAINING AQUEOUS SOLUTION Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL 1733 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 24, 2024
18712815 ELECTRONIC COMPONENT Koa Corporation LEE, KYUNG S 2831 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2024
18654596 FUEL CELL SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. HAUTH, GALEN H 1743 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 03, 2024
18705081 GLASS COMPOSITION FOR GLASS FIBERS, GLASS FIBER, GLASS FIBER WOVEN FABRIC, AND GLASS-FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSION Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. EASHOO, MARK 1767 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18588526 CONTROLLER Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM 1794 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2024
18588495 CONTROLLER Honda Motor Co., Ltd. JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA 1795 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2024
18583417 FRAMED MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CHAN, HENG M 1725 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 21, 2024
18582049 ELECTROCHEMICAL MODULE Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1794 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2024
18684385 BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME Maruemu Works Co., Ltd. ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S 1613 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Feb 16, 2024
18579444 HEAT-SHIELDING THERMAL INSULATION COATING COMPOSITION Shimizu Corporation PARVINI, PEGAH 1731 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2024
18579975 RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR HOSE, AND HOSE The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. HEINCER, LIAM J 1767 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2024
18575867 ACTUAL MACHINE DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R 2151 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 01, 2024
18391915 HIGH PRESSURE TANK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LINER Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ROY, DEBJANI 1741 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18571330 ACTUAL MACHINE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, ACTUAL MACHINE COMPLEX DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, AND ACTUAL MACHINE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. MARINI, MATTHEW G 2853 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 18, 2023
18533305 JOINING METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1752 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 08, 2023
18534052 FUEL CELL STACK Honda Motor Co., Ltd. WINCHESTER, WILLIAM JOHI 1711 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 08, 2023
18288697 METHOD FOR PRODUCING LONG GLASS FIBERS Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING 1741 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 27, 2023
18384064 ELECTROSYNTHESIS SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T 1774 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 26, 2023
18288265 GLASS REINFORCED RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. ZHANG, RUIYUN 1782 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 25, 2023
18382724 CATALYST FOR METHANE SYNTHESIS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC 1732 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 23, 2023
18287590 KUMIS-DERIVED EXOSOME AND USE THEREOF Bulude Eerdeng FIEBIG, RUSSELL G 1655 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 19, 2023
18285575 GLASS COMPOSITION FOR GLASS FIBERS, GLASS FIBER, AND GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. CAI, WENWEN 1763 §102§112DP Final Rejection — Pending Oct 04, 2023
18372113 MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 3623 §101 Final Rejection 7d Pending Sep 24, 2023
18370576 ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE DEVICE Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. WILLIAMS, THOMAS J 3616 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18282839 COMPOSITE STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE COMPOSITE STRUCTURE Toto Ltd. WIESE, NOAH S 1731 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 19, 2023
18243841 FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR FUEL CELL SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MARTIN, ANGELA J 1727 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 08, 2023
18238664 LEAK INSPECTION METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. TRAN, DAN NGUYEN 1754 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2023
18278476 WORK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND WORK ASSISTANCE COMPOSITE SYSTEM Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 3661 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 23, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Carrier Shende And Associates Pc's patent allowance rate?

90.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Carrier Shende And Associates Pc were allowed, across 4,768 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Carrier Shende And Associates Pc average before allowance?

2.67 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Carrier Shende And Associates Pc have?

62 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 20 clients, before 62 examiners in 45 art units.

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